apron-string hold

== English == === Pronunciation === === Noun === apron-string hold (plural apron-string holds) (idiomatic, obsolete, informal) An estate held by a man during his wife's life. === References === [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811), “Apron-string hold”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: […] C. Chappell, […], →OCLC.